NEW YORK — A former federal transportation security agent was held on $3,000 bail Saturday after being charged with luring a 21-year-old Korean exchange student going to school in Utah into a bathroom at a New York City airport and molesting her.

Maxie Oquendo, 40, was arrested Thursday on unlawful imprisonment, official misconduct and sexual abuse charges, two days after authorities say the Transportation Security Administration agent confronted the woman after she stepped off a flight from Salt Lake City, telling her a “secondary security screening” was necessary.

The TSA said it has fired Oquendo.

Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown said in a release that the student had left the area of the airport where passengers require screening when he told her: “Hey ma’am, I need to scan your body and your luggage.”

Prosecutors said he motioned for her to follow him to a bathroom when the victim told him: “You can’t scan me but you can have a woman scan me because I am a girl.”

Prosecutors said Oquendo then told her to face the mirror and raise her arms, prompting the student to ask if he checked all passengers. They said he responded yes.

According to the charges, Oquendo then had her lift her shirt and unzip her pants before he touched her over and under her clothing.